fix: don't portray special schools as failing the mainstream benchmark
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Special schools, PRUs and alternative provision teach pupils with SEND who sit the same KS2/KS4 assessments but very few reach the mainstream "expected standard". Their headline attainment is therefore ~0% (or a very low Attainment 8), and the site was comparing that to the England average and painting it red — e.g. Greenmead School (a community special school) rendered as "0.0% — −62 pts below England average" with three 0% red SATs bars. That portrays a special school as catastrophically failing against a benchmark that doesn't fit it. Add a shared `isSpecialSchool()` helper (detects every DfE special-school establishment type — all contain "special" — plus PRUs / alternative provision) and drop the mainstream England comparison + "below" framing for these schools across every surface: - Detail (primary + secondary): a plain-English context note explaining the school is special and why the comparison isn't shown; England-average delta chips, "England avg" hints, the SATs national markers, the Attainment-8 "vs national" bar and the trend chart's England overlay are all suppressed. An all-zero placeholder SATs row hides the (empty) subject bar chart and the "why is combined lower" bridge. - Rankings / search rows (primary + secondary): the mainstream RWM / Attainment 8 stat shows "—" with no "vs national" delta, instead of "0% · −62 vs national". - Compare: special schools' attainment values are dropped (no misleading dot at 0% / no "Below England average" chip); progress banding, which IS a fair measure for special schools, is kept. Belt-and-braces zero-guard: a whole-row zero attainment (special or a suppressed cohort) is also treated as not-comparable, while a legitimate single 0 (e.g. 0% exceeding at a mainstream school) stays comparable. Tests: new isSpecialSchool unit tests (every DfE special type matched, no mainstream false positives); an e2e journey asserts Greenmead shows the special-school note and no England-average comparison. tsc clean; 108/108 unit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
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@@ -795,3 +795,24 @@ export const PROPOSED_TO_CLOSE_STATUS = 'Open, but proposed to close';
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export function isProposedToClose(school: { status?: string | null }): boolean {
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return school.status === PROPOSED_TO_CLOSE_STATUS;
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}
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/**
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* Special schools, pupil referral units and alternative provision teach pupils
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* with SEND or outside mainstream settings. Their pupils sit the same KS2/KS4
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* assessments but very few reach the mainstream "expected standard", so the
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* headline attainment measures — and any comparison to the England average —
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* are not a fair judgement of the school. Callers use this to drop the
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* mainstream-benchmark framing (deltas, "below England", national markers)
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* rather than portray these schools as failing.
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*
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* Detection is by establishment type: every DfE special-school type contains
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* "special" (e.g. "Community special school", "Academy special converter/sponsor
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* led", "Foundation special school", "Non-maintained special school", "Free
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* schools special", "Other independent special school"); PRUs and alternative
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* provision are matched by name. Special schools carry a mainstream `phase`
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* (Primary/Secondary/All-through), so `phase` alone can't identify them.
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*/
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export function isSpecialSchool(school: { school_type?: string | null }): boolean {
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const t = (school.school_type ?? '').toLowerCase();
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return /\bspecial\b/.test(t) || /pupil referral/.test(t) || /alternative provision/.test(t);
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}
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